Reading Coach Thinks Foreigners Bad, Sir Alex Ferguson Good

It’s no secret that England’s national team has been taking a beating over the last few years. They are currently on the fringe of not qualifying for next year’s Euro 2008 tournament and Reading head coach Steve Coppell thinks it’s all because foreigners are invading English soccer pitches across the country. This sounds so familiar.

“We’re the English Premier League, yet the majority of the teams at the top of the Premiership have very few English players. We must protect our identity by having a limited number of English players. Our domestic football now is the most entertaining in the world but our national team doesn’t duplicate that.

Settle down Nazi. Can we suggest that maybe the English Premier League is the most exciting because of these foreign players? We’re exclaiming a collective, “duh”. So tell us what England should do Coppell.

The only way we can do that is by having direction from the Premier League, it’s the only organisation that can really push [the national quota]. We have the best league in the world, can we now use that to our advantage to produce the best national team in the world?”

Probably not. With only four wins out of thirteen games, Coppell should concentrate on getting his all-English squad some domestic wins before he opens his yap. Oh wait. Seol Ki-Hyeon, Ibrahima Sonko, or Ulises De la Cruz don’t sound English? Wait! Ulises De la Cruz! Primo?
Coppell wants Premiership quotas [BBC]
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